How To Install wine64-development-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-development-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wine64-development-tools
wine64-development-tools is:
Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation. This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.
This package provides Wine’s 64-bit developer tools. They are capable of generating both 32- and 64-bit results.
There are three methods to install wine64-development-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wine64-development-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wine64-development-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wine64-development-tools
Install wine64-development-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wine64-development-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wine64-development-tools
Install wine64-development-tools Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wine64-development-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wine64-development-tools
How To Uninstall wine64-development-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wine64-development-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wine64-development-tools
Uninstall wine64-development-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wine64-development-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wine64-development-tools
Remove wine64-development-tools Configurations and Data
To remove wine64-development-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wine64-development-tools
Remove wine64-development-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wine64-development-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wine64-development-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine64-development-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
